Fay Quotes in Riding in Cars with Boys (2001)

Fay: Sometimes we love people so much that we have to be numb to it. Because if we actually felt how much we love them, it would kill us. That doesn't make you a bad person. It just means your heart's too big.

Fay: Okay, pretend that I'm your parents, say what your gonna say.

Beverly: Okay, Mom, Pop?

Fay: Yeah?

Beverly: I don't know how to say this...

Fay: But...

Beverly: I'm pregnant.

Fay: My daughter's a tramp! My daughter's a tramp! You're 15 years old, how could you do this to me? Why don't you just take my gun. Take my gun and shoot me in the head with it tramp! I wish that you were never born! How was that?

Tina Barr: Are we invited to this party?

Beverly: They're Fay's friends.

Fay: They're not. My parents are friends with their parents.

Beverly: What's important is that Sky Barrister will be there.

Fay: Sky has had his hands in everything you've got. And he has a ton of your poems. And does he call you once? No. Bev, you are truly a great person. But someone as conceited as Sky won't see that. Because all he can see is himself. You know I'm right.

Tina Barr: It's true, Bev.

Beverly: [pause]

[she observes Fay's dress]

Beverly: Let me wear that dress.

Fay: What?

Beverly: Fay, if I even look half as beautiful as you in that dresss... Sky will have to notice me. You can wear my dress.

Tina Barr: No.

Fay: [she observes Bev's dress but is reluctant] I... No, Bev. It won't fit.

Beverly: Fay, you gotta let me wear that dress.

Fay: Why?

Beverly: Because I love you.

[Fay ponders]

Beverly: Please, please, please.

Fay: All right.

Fay: Don't blame me if this party is boring and no fun.

Beverly: Fun? Fun? Fun is what you bring with you.

Beverly: I swear, I haven't smiled in like a month. Your mom taking the kids to the movies was a great idea. Hey, shut the door.

Fay: Okay.

[see's Jason and Amelia roughhousing]

Fay: You play nice, kids.

Fay: I mean sitting over there is this beautiful girl with this light around her.

Guest: It's the chair.

Bobby: What's in your dress? What is this?

[he removes tissue from the bust area of Fay's dress]

Fay: It's Bev's dress. It's too big.

Bobby: Oh, sweetie.

Fay: It didn't look right on me.

Fay: You love baseball.

Harry Block: Baseball's easy because it has rules. It has foul lines.

Hortense, Maisie, Fay, Dulcie, Nancy: [singing] We'd save for him, And slave for him, We'd even misbehave for him, That certain thing called "The Boy Friend"

Mme. Dubonnet: [singing] I am so good, At spreading mirth and joy

Percy: But it's no good, With such a sulky boy

Maisie, Fay, Dulcie, Nancy: I try, To play the game the other fellows all choose

Percy: The other fellows all choose

Maisie, Fay, Dulcie, Nancy: I sigh, Because you always refuse

Mme. Dubonnet: What is a girl to do, With such a boy as you? I've got those

Percy, Mme. Dubonnet, Maisie, Fay, Dulcie, Nancy: Dreary, Weary, You-Don't-Want-To-Play-With-Me Blues

[last lines]

Fay: Johnny, you've got to run!

Johnny Clay: Eh, what's the difference?